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Certified destruction of California's ancient redwood forestsTags: USA, SCS

The following was submitted by the Greenwood Earth Alliance

We are appalled at the Forest Stewardship Council activities in our region, specifically in Mendocino County, California, where the FSC's certifier, Scientific Certification Systems, certified a program of clear-cutting (with the absurd stipulation of a 50 year phase-out), pesticide use (no phase-out date; and including the use of imazapyr, a persistent pesticide that violates FSC guidelines), species extinction, and continued depletion of 235,000 acres of once magnificent redwood forest, now owned and being logged by the Fisher family of Gap Inc...[Continue]
Posted by Hermann on 03 November 2006, 08:33 | Comments (1) | Backlinks (0)

FSC and the nightmare vision of forestry in the USTags: USA, Rainforest Alliance SmartWood

This was sent by Jon Mohler, October 2006

The West Coast Green homebuilding conference in San Francisco in September attracted 8,000 attendees, most of them groping toward a solution to this problem: Forty percent of world industrial output goes toward construction. The United States, for example, consumes 27% of the planet's wood products, mostly for house construction. Most construction commodities receive little evaluation of their environmental impacts, and people at the conference were anxious for guidance.

Into the breach stepped the Rainforest Alliance (RA), headquartered in New York...[Continue]

Posted by FSC-Watch on 03 November 2006, 08:30 | Comments (0) | Backlinks (0)
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